The past 24 hours have been completely consumed by putting together this list! I wanted to stick to it and finish it because everyone found it really useful last time for discovering new cycling blogs and all the bloggers that made it onto the list were very grateful for the traffic boost to their sites.
There have been some fantastic new entries onto the list. Bike 198 which I can’t believe I missed last time, Prolly is Not Probably again a stupid miss on my part and Cycling Tips which has grown into one of my favourite blogs.
I’ve labelled in green the blogs that have moved up the list and orange for any new entries.
Have I missed you out?
Unfortunately a couple of blogs that I absolutely love didn’t make it into the top 50 this time. This is mainly due to the number of new entries. If you get some time checkout Bike Noob, Treadly and An Adventure Called Bicycling. There are plenty more blogs that I love and I follow but I have to draw the line somewhere.
If your blog was not included then please let me know about it and I’ll add it to the list of blogs I’m considering for the next update.
How did I pick top 50?
I visit every single cycling blog I’ve ever heard of and I note down certain things such as the number of comments in the last 5 posts (excluding most recent post), Alexa rank and Google inlinks.
Then each of the attributes gets a score, it is normalised and an average is calculated. It basically involves a lot of Excel formulas and plenty of data checking!
I also have a few criteria’s such as: the blogs have to be active and not aimed solely at selling stuff.
Any more interesting stats?
- Highest Alexa rank: Bike 198
- Highest number of comments: Bike Snob NYC
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Is it okay to do an update via the comments field here? ok. Here goes…
RidingPretty is on twitter and has been for awhile. I finally figured out today that I’d put some lock /protection thingy on it.
So it’s all good to go now twitter wise
http://twitter.com/ridingpretty
BTW, The Washingmachine Post is on twitter – he’s @twmp
This blog really missed the boat in many ways. With our films, Streetfilms have influenced the decision-making in many major cities the last four years. Our films have been watched nearly 3 million times and have played in hundreds of festivals and showings, and our bicycling films on Bogota’s Ciclovia in 2007 (watched over 200,000 times on various media interfaces) and Physically Separated Bike Paths (almost 200,000) have clearly had a huge influence in persuading and allowing cities all across the U.S. to invest in those kind of biking amenities.
Although we could technically be called a vlog, so…
Nice list!
Well I am sad that i dropped out of top 50
My wife promises to comment more.
http://twitter.com/cyclingalps
Good list.
When you get to the top 1000, you can consider Cycle Fun Montreal
Thanks, honored to be here, and thanks for the traffic!
I got a used Brompton for my birthday, itchair to follow, and am obsessively devouring old A to B’s, so you can expect more UK-inspired family adventures in the coming year.
Awesome list, thank you
This is a nice blog message, I will keep this idea in my mind. If you add more video and pictures because it helps understanding
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I have a blog i just started recently, not to take away from any london cyclist visitors, but I hope they xan enjoy visiting it alongside london cyclist, click my name to visit
Swing by and check out Bike World News sometime. Click on my name for the link.
Perhaps I can get an honorable mention since my magazine (which I call an “aggrezine™”) is an aggregation blog posts, repurposed and redesigned in a digital-magazine format. Now on its 13th issue, I’m read by thousands in over 90 countries. Good blogs make good aggrezines. Thanks to all on this list!
Paul Kramer
Riders’ Collective
Publisher, Editor, Designer, Cyclist
I noticed all these blogs are in English. Is there a place or list for international or blogs in other languages?
Cheers!
Hi, could you consider http://www.bikingindallas.com when you next update your list? Cheers!
Chris